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🗞️ Paper out now! Issue 73 Finally! A Time to Laugh
Read the paper online: https://t.co/7orSI8PEn8
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On December 14, Merry & Bright - Family Fun will have fun festivities including face painting, balloon artists, and roaming Santa located outside Harvey Norman Maribyrnong from 11am to 2pm.

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It's Wednesday westsiders... Where in the west is this?

If you've got a photo to keep our Westsiders guessing - Just email it through - address in our bio.

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The Women’s Circus has long been a fixture of the vibrant west.

✍️ Kel Rowe
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Local comedian Sam Gebreselassie spoke to us for our April edition. Read more here.
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A quick Google search for ‘mental health and humour’ returns over 50 million results, to find out more we spoke to PhD researcher and sometime comedian Carol-Anne Croker to find out more about her and her work.

https://t.co/wMBs41zN51

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Steven Tran is the first ArtLife participant awarded a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. You can read more about Footscray Community Arts and Steven's exhibition on our website.

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"With my face bright and hot as a chilli pepper, I mustered brute courage from somewhere and read aloud the few short paragraphs I’d just written"

✍️ Amanda Falson

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"Students find the program fun and different. Participants who have trouble being motivated at school, find their engagement increased through the experience of working in an adult environment"

Learn more about this program run by the Community Bike Hub

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Beautifully captured from Newport / Williamstown by Marie Parr

Got a sunrise / sunset photo of the west? DM us!

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Throwback Thursday to 1965!

Miss Helen Dryburgh, is welding bent nails into a social commentary sculpture.

Miss Dryburgh, of West Footscray, a western suburb of Melbourne is the only woman welder in a factory which produces electric stoves.

Credit: National Archives of Aus

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Happy International Women's Day - we thank all of the women who came before us and paved the way for us today.

Image by Alexis D.Lea Photography from our March 2022 edition.

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"Speaking to several industry experts and business operators, here’s what I’ve found out and we hope this information will help our readers to navigate the career change you’ve been seeking. "

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"But like every summer, I have seen clearly loved dogs being walked in the heat of the day and worry about their wellbeing. My guess is that people tend to forget from year to year, a bit like how we get caught out on the first hot day without sunscreen."

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Colleen Marion: A true champion of the West.

"For the next 16 years, The Gathering Place provided culturally appropriate medical and social welfare services to Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Melbourne’s West."

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It's Wednesday Westsiders!

Where in the west is this?

If you've got a photo to keep our Westsiders guessing, DM us!

#thewestsider #melbswest #melbwest #melbourne #whereinthewest #instapicoftheday #pickoftheday #innerwest #innerwestmelb #streetart

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Yarraville Community Centre is hosting a pop-up food relief market!

We will be hosting these markets once a month over the next four months on the following dates from 10am - 12.30pm in their car park.

Wednesday 1st March

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Introducing the Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria

They will be launching meet ups in the West kicking off next Wednesday 22 February and held every 4th Wednesday of the month.

Join in at the Footscray Library Conference Room (6pm - 7.30pm)

Registrations essentials

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The new Sunshine Private Hospital is hosting an open day this weekend!

Sunday 19th February
11AM-2PM
145 Furlong Rd. Sunshine private hospital main entrance.

Inclusive of a hospital tour, door prize, sausage sizzle, face painting, balloons!

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CW: mentions of race

"Apparently we need to understand the impact of how past and present racist systems have been stacked in white-people’s favour. I really do want to be part of ‘the solution’ but I can’t help but feel sometimes that it’s not my problem"

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'With a lack of sustainable alternatives, we are faced with questions of how to be more mindful in what we consume, and the changes required to reduce our environmental footprint.'

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